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School of Language and Communication Studies Undergraduate Brochure (PDF)
BA Japanese and Film and Television
UCAS Course Code
RP9H
Attendance
Full Time
School of Study
Typical A-Level Offer
ABB
This course combines an equal combination of advanced language learning with the study of film and television. You study Japanese language to degree level and choose from a range of specialist modules in film and television, and modules on language and translation issues. In the School of Film and Television Studies, you will be trained to ask questions about the history, political significance and formal qualities of sound and image. Whether preserving moving images, engaging in the creative activity of making them, or learning more about their role in shaping or reproducing social values, the development and character of these important audio-visual cultures will be explored in a stimulating environment. The degree includes a year abroad in Japan, studying at university.
Graduates from this degree will be highly employable and able to enter an extremely wide range of professions using their well-developed language and communication skills, intercultural sensitivity, and media knowledge.
Year 1
The Film and Television modules in year 1 (Analysing Film and Television, Studies in Film History, and Interrogating Culture) provide students with an introduction to critical concepts and historical issues central to the study of film and television, as well as a range of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches. In the School of Language and Communication Studies, alongside level 1 language competence modules, you take a module entitled Study, Research and Communication Skills which provides you with a practical and critical basis for all language and language-related study throughout the degree.
Year 2
In year two, students build up their linguistic and cultural proficiency in Japanese language modules. In addition, students consolidate and extend their knowledge through more detailed work in optional modules. In film and television studies, the options include: Television Genre, Hollywood and the World, Film Noir, The Hollywood Musical, The Practice of Screenwriting: Issues in Adaptation, World Cinema, Celebrity, and Film and Authorship. The options complementing the language work include: Subtitling and Dubbing, Translation and Adaptation, Intercultural Communication in Practice, and Translation Issues in the Media.
The Year Abroad
Your third year is spent in Japan. Please see the Study Abroad tab for further information.
Final Year
The final year language work modules make up half the year’s credit and consolidate and build on improved competence acquired on the year abroad. Students will write a dissertation in the foreign language on a film-related topic. The Film and Television options aim to promote more advanced understanding of film and television by asking students to undertake more in-depth work in modules such as: Contemporary Japanese Visual Media, Science Fiction Cinema, Popular Animation, Crime and Investigation in Contemporary US Television, Comedy, Gender and Genre in Contemporary Cinema, , Women and British Cinema, Selling Spectacle and Film and Cultural Politics.
Honours Language Work
As well as taking this programme from post-A level (from 2012 onwards), it is possible to start from beginners in Japanese or GCSE level in Japanese. In these cases, more intensive language study is provided prior to the year abroad in year three. This more intensive study reduces slightly the number of optional modules available. If you study two languages to Honours level, only one may be taken from beginners or post-GCSE level.
In each year, you have on average 4 contact-hours per week in your Honours language (8 if you study two Honours languages, and more if you study Japanese from beginners level). The Honours language teaching is closely related to the study of contemporary society in the country (or countries) where your Honours language is spoken and your experience of learning language at UEA will include a combination of lectures, seminars and conversation classes. It will cover grammar, translation from and into Japanese, reading and listening comprehension, précis and paraphrase work, the study of different styles and registers, lexical exercises and oral work. You will also spend a significant proportion of time working independently using subject-oriented teaching dossiers, radio, TV, films, transcripts, newspapers and online resources while keeping abreast of current affairs and cultural life at home and abroad. Our Language Centre has a digital language laboratory, a viewing and editing room, an interpreting suite for advanced language training, live satellite television broadcasts, a large, multi-media self-access resources room with a wide range of DVDs and reference books, up-to-date computers linked to the internet, and translation software.
You will acquire specific expertise in the traditional language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening, as well as transferable skills such as time management, self-discipline and self-motivation.
School of Language and Communication Studies Undergraduate Brochure (PDF)
The School of Language and Communication Studies is a small, lively School where we offer flexible undergraduate degree programmes with an emphasis on language competence and on issues relating to contemporary language and translation. Our graduates are highly employable and enter an extremely wide range of professions using their well-developed language and communication skills, and intercultural sensitivity.
Our MA graduates are equally successful professionally. Courses at this level enable flexible planning in the combination of core and optional modules and in the range of possible dissertation topics, while the Faculty of Arts and Humanities provides a rich interdisciplinary environment designed to encourage dialogue and the cross-fertilisation of ideas.
New for 2012-13
We’re always working to build on our strengths here in LCS, improving your student experience – and your prospects. Here are some new Key Features for 2012-13 that you won’t yet find in our brochure:
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- Employability boost – extra timetabled sessions to develop your skills and employability profile for a range of professions using language skills right from the start of your degree course.
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UniStats Information
Compulsory Study (60 credits)
Students must study the following modules for 60 credits:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ANALYSING FILM AND TELEVISION The module is designed to provide students with core study skills and techniques and methods of textual analysis. The module will cover the analysis of a range of formal features and frameworks such as narrative, mise-en-scene, camera work, editing and sound used in the analysis of film and television. The study skills covered will include use of the library and internet for research, as well as note taking, essay planning and the conventions of academic writing. In the process the module will cover issues such as referencing and plagiarism. It will be taught by lecture, seminar and screening. | FTMF4002A | 20 |
| EMPLOYABILITY WORKSHOPS The employability workshops have been created to improve students' self-awareness as potential language and communication studies graduates and employees, and to help them better understand and define what career areas they might be both interested in and suited to. These workshops will help students discover the range of careers available with a languages degree and inform them about entry routes; equip students to research a potential employer and present themselves to them in a professional way; give students the confidence to go out there and organise some work experience/apply for Graduate level jobs; improve students' approach to applications, including application forms, CVs and covering letters; improve students' approach to interview preparation and performance; help students develop a plan of action that will turn dreams and aspirations into reality. This module is for LCS students only. | LCSW4046B | 0 |
| INTERROGATING CULTURE This module provides an introduction to the key debates over media and cultural theory. In the process, it focuses on the key movements and theorists and covers key debates over the concept of mass culture and the mass media, structuralism and poststructuralism, high/low culture, the culture industries, and hegemony. The module will be taught by lecture and seminar. | FTMF4004B | 20 |
| LANGUAGE AND CULTURE WORKSHOPS Language and Culture Workshops are aimed at developing transferable skills in the domains of enterprise and engagement. Students are encouraged to work on their own projects in groups and they get involved in all aspects of project realisation, such as planning, organisation, presentation, leadership, team work, and decision-making. The workshops are particularly envisaged as a platform for enhancing employability prospects of students. They are not assessed in terms of grades but each student is awarded a participation certificate showcasing the specific skills acquired as well as personal achievements, responsibilities and individual contribution to the project as a whole, which provides the student with both practical examples and evidence in writing that can be used to demonstrate qualifications in job applications. This module is for LCS students only. | LCSW4045A | 0 |
| STUDIES IN FILM HISTORY This module provides an introduction to the history of film from the mid to late 20th Century, familiarizing students with key points of reference in the field. However, the module is also designed to familiarize students with a range of objects and methods within the practice of film history and to use these to encourage students to start asking questions about the construction of the established and accepted narrative of film history. | FTMF4001B | 20 |
Option A Study (60 credits)
Students will select 60 credits from the following modules:
Option Range A will be treated as compulsory. Students taking Ab-Initio language will take LCSJ4008Y. Students taking Post-GCSE language will take LCSJ4009Y plus LCSC4001A. Students taking Post A-Level language will take LCSJ4027A and LCSJ4028B plus LCSC4001A.
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES | LCSC4001A | 20 |
| JAPANESE AB-INITIO HONOURS I This is a module for students taking their Japanese Honours language degree from an ab initio starting point. The need for significant progress in reading, writing, listening and speaking is met with the intensive teaching that this module provides. The aim is to equip students with the linguistic understanding of a number of real-life situations, as well as the ability to communicate effectively in those situations. Particular emphasis is also placed on acquiring a sound knowledge of grammar. This module caters for beginners' level entrants and is only available to students in LCS. | LCSJ4008Y | 60 |
| JAPANESE POST-GCSE I This is a module for students taking their Japanese Honours language degree from a post-GCSE starting point. The need for significant progress in reading, writing, listening and speaking is met with the intensive teaching that this module provides. The aim is to equip students with the linguistic understanding of a number of real-life situations, as well as the ability to communicate effectively in those situations. Particular emphasis is also placed on acquiring a sound knowledge of grammar. It is only available to students taking a degree in Japanese from post-GCSE level. | LCSJ4009Y | 40 |
| POST A-LEVEL JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1/I A course in Japanese for students with Japanese A-level, having passed Japanese Language Proficiency Test N4, or holding any other equivalent qualification. This module aims to enable students to build on, and further enhance, existing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. It is designed to build up linguistic proficiency, cultural knowledge and language learning skills in preparation for the year abroad. A key component is the exploration of themes that develop understanding of the diversity in Japanese society. Specific aspects of language are revisited and consolidated at a higher level. The emphasis lies on enhancing essential grammar and vocabulary in meaningful contexts, whilst also developing knowledge of contemporary life and society that focuses on culture and current affairs. This module can be taken in any year. This module is not available to native speaker or those with equivalent competence. | LCSJ4027A | 20 |
| POST A-LEVEL JAPANESE LANGUAGE 1/II A continuation of module LCSU1J21. This module is not available to native speakers or those with equivalent competence. | LCSJ4028B | 20 |
Compulsory Study
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EMPLOYABILITY WORKSHOPS The employability workshops have been created to improve students' self-awareness as potential language and communication studies graduates and employees, and to help them better understand and define what career areas they might be both interested in and suited to. These workshops will help students discover the range of careers available with a languages degree and inform them about entry routes; equip students to research a potential employer and present themselves to them in a professional way; give students the confidence to go out there and organise some work experience/apply for Graduate level jobs; improve students' approach to applications, including application forms, CVs and covering letters; improve students' approach to interview preparation and performance; help students develop a plan of action that will turn dreams and aspirations into reality. This module is for LCS students only. | LCSW5042A | 0 |
| LANGUAGE AND CULTURE WORKSHOPS Language and Culture Workshops are aimed at developing transferable skills in the domains of enterprise and engagement. Students are encouraged to work on their own projects in groups and they get involved in all aspects of project realisation, such as planning, organisation, presentation, leadership, team work, and decision-making. The workshops are particularly envisaged as a platform for enhancing employability prospects of students. They are not assessed in terms of grades but each student is awarded a participation certificate showcasing the specific skills acquired as well as personal achievements, responsibilities and individual contribution to the project as a whole, which provides the student with both practical examples and evidence in writing that can be used to demonstrate qualifications in job applications. This module is for LCS students only. | LCSW5041B | 0 |
Option A Study (40 credits)
Students will select 40 credits from the following modules:
Option Range A will be treated as compulsory. Students taking Ab-Initio language will take LCSJ5013Y. Students taking Post-GSCE language will take LCSJ5014Y. Students taking Post A-Level language will take LCSJ5055A and LCSJ5056B.
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| JAPANESE AB INITIO HONOURS II This year-long module is for year two Ab Initio students and is the continuation of LCS-1J5Y Ab Initio Honours I. This module aims to enable students to build on and further enhance existing reading, writing, speaking and listening skills. It is designed to build up linguistic proficiency, cultural knowledge and learning skills in preparation for the year abroad. Specific aspects of language are revisited and consolidated at a higher level. The emphasis lies on enhancing essential grammar notions and vocabulary areas in meaningful context, whilst developing knowledge of contemporary life and society that focuses on culture and current affairs. | LCSJ5013Y | 40 |
| JAPANESE POST GCSE II This year long module is for Year 2 post-GCSE entry students and is the continuation of LCS-1J7Y Post-GCSE I. It is designed to build up linguistic proficiency, cultural knowledge and learning skills in preparation for the year abroad. | LCSJ5014Y | 40 |
| MODERN JAPANESE LANGUAGE HONOURS 2/I This semester-long Japanese language module is compulsory for all second-year Single Honours Japanese students. Its aim is to build up language proficiency and cultural awareness of Japan. | LCSJ5055A | 20 |
| MODERN JAPANESE LANGUAGE HONOURS 2/II This semester-long module is compulsory for all second-year Japanese Honours students. Its aim is to build up language proficiency and cultural awareness of Japan. | LCSJ5056B | 20 |
Option B Study (60 credits)
Students will select 60 credits from the following modules:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ANIMATION Animation is one of the most popular and least scrutinised areas of popular media culture. This module seeks to introduce students to animation as a mode of production through examinations of different aesthetics and types of animation from stop motion through to cel and CGI-based examples. It then goes on to discuss some of the debates around animation in relation to case study texts. Example debates include: who animation is for (children?), the limits of the term âanimationâ in relation to CGI, the industrial frameworks for animation production (art vs commerce) and character vs star debates around animation icons. A range of approaches and methods will therefore be adopted within the module, including political economics, cultural industries, star studies and animation studies itself. The module is taught by seminar and screening. | FTMF5004A | 20 |
| BRITISH CINEMA AND THE PAST Literary adaptations, historical epics, war films, spoofs, bio-pics and romantic comedies: British films feature a range of filmmaking styles that deal with and represent 'the past'. This module examines the prominent position that period films have occupied within British film culture of the last century. Their enduring popularity among both filmmakers and audiences raises a range of aesthetic, ideological and practical issues. What techniques and conventions do they use to depict the past? What visions of the British past do they offer? What pleasures do they provide for their audiences? How important are foreign audiences and investment? Do films about the past provide escapist entertainment, or do they enable filmmakers (and audiences) to address contemporary concerns? Investigating films such as 'Zulu', 'A Room with a View', 'Elizabeth', the 'Carry On' series and 'The Queen', the module examines the depiction of the past in British cinema from the 1930s to the present. The module is taught by seminar and screening. | FTMF5002B | 20 |
| BRITISH CINEMA SINCE 1990 The period since 1990 has been one of rapid change in the British film industry and this module explores this changing landscape. It will explore key areas including institution (the role of screen agencies, the BFI and key film making institutions such as Aardman, Working Title and Warp films) and policy as well as looking at areas such as genres, stars and directors. We will consider the interplay between the British film industry and the wider global film industry and will draw on a range of both familiar and less well known texts in order to analyse some of the key developments in British cinema during this time and to consider how recent developments such as the closure of the Film Council might impact upon British cinema culture. | FTMF5011A | 20 |
| BRITISH FILM and TELEVISION The module will explore the key issues in the analysis of British film and television. It will cover the conditions of their production, mediation and consumption, while also providing opportunities for close analysis of key texts, figures and periods. For example, it will examine the British film studios and the developing relations between film and television production; it will discuss the claims about the realist tradition within British film and television production, while simultaneously examining the centrality of spectacle within British film and television; it will analyse a range of British genres; it will explore debates over the situation of British stars and directors; it will study the preoccupation with historical materials in British film and television production; and, finally, it will scrutinize the concept of national cinema and observe the importance of international markets to both film and television production, an importance that dates back to the earliest days of both media. THIS MODULE IS AVAILABLE FOR INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENTS ONLY | FTMF5023S | 20 |
| CINEMA BEYOND HOLLYWOOD Cinema Beyond Hollywood offers students the opportunity to learn about films in relation to cultures from around the world. It introduces a wide range of popular and marginalised national cinemas including examples from Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East in order to challenge student understandings of how cinema works around the world. In this way, this module seeks to expand student horizons beyond the dominant norms of global Hollywood filmmaking. Therefore, during this module students investigate how national, regional, transnational and world cinema labels are used to create alternative spaces for films in a crowded global marketplace for films that reaches from the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival to screenings of films banned at home and smuggled out to international screening venues. Students are also introduced to some of the major frameworks used to analyse the global trafficking in film cultures: from textual analysis, to cultural economics, to ideological and institutional approaches. These will be used by students in their investigations of particular case studies during the semester, and also in project work. | FTMF5024A | 20 |
| FILM AND AUTHORSHIP This module will introduce students to the theory and analysis of authorship within film. In the process, it will introduce students to the key theoretical debates over film authorship before moving on to examine a range of case studies. The module is taught by seminar and is supported by a separate programme of screenings. | FTMF5007B | 20 |
| FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES SEMESTER ABROAD A Semester Abroad for students in the School of Film and Television Studies. | FTMF5016B | 60 |
| FILM GENRES Film Genres introduces students to the range of theories and methods used to account for the prevalence of genres within filmmaking. The module investigates historical changes in how film genres have been approached in order to consider how genres have been made use of by industry, critics and film audiences. Genre theories are explored through a range of case studies drawn from one or more of a range of popular American film genres that may include the Western, melodrama, romantic comedy, the road movie, the buddy movie, film noir, the gangster film, the war film and action/adventure film. In exploring concepts and case studies relating to film genres the module aims to demonstrate the impact of genres within contemporary culture. | FTMF5015A | 20 |
| FILM THEORY This module explores aspects of film theory as it has developed over the last hundred years or so. It encompasses topics including responses to cinema by filmmaker theorists such as Sergei Eisenstein; influential formulations of and debates about realism and film aesthetics associated with writers and critics such as André Bazin, Siegfried Kracauer, Rudolf Arnheim and Bela Bálázs; the impact of structuralism, theories of genre, narrative and models of film language; theories of authorship; feminist film theory and its emphasis on psychoanalysis; intertextuality; theories of race and representation; reception models. The module is taught by lecture, screening and seminar. Students will work with primary texts - both films and theoretical writings - and have the opportunity to explore in their written work the ways in which film theories can be applied to film texts. | FTMF5010A | 20 |
| GENDER AND BRITISH CINEMA This module will focus on gender representations in British cinema from the 1930s up to the 1990s. It will examine key genres such as comedy, horror, adventure film, thriller and costume drama, in terms of their mediation of masculinity and femininity; in doing so it will also offer a general introduction to this particular national cinema, albeit with a fresh and innovative perspective. Providing an opportunity for the sustained study of gender issues in relation to cinema, and taking in a range of historically and thematically diverse films, this module will trace the changing images of men and women in twentieth century British cinema as those films in turn mediated wider changes in British society. | FTMF5025A | 20 |
| MEDIA INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1W610301 and U1P300302. This module is intended to provide students with an opportunity to experience working within a media organisation. The organisation will provide a clear sense of their structure and activities and students will work to a precise job description. The internship will therefore offer students the opportunity to work as individuals within a team and develop skills and experience vital to future career in the media. | FTMF5008A | 20 |
| MEDIA INTERNSHIP AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1W610301 and U1P300302. This module is intended to provide students with an opportunity to experience working within a media organisation. The organisation will provide a clear sense of their structure and activities and students will work to a precise job description. The internship will therefore offer students the opportunity to work as individuals within a team and develop skills and experience vital to future career in the media. | FTMF5009B | 20 |
| POPULAR MUSIC This module encourages students to explore the ways in which popular music has been understood by scholars in the field of media and cultural studies. The module will examine the debates over popular music industries, texts and audiences, and incorporate an exploration of a range of popular musical forms, including folk music, rock, pop, rap and/or hip-hop, and dance music cultures. It will also examine the relations of popular music to other media, such as television and the internet. | FTMF5012B | 20 |
| RECEPTION AND AUDIENCE STUDIES IN FILM AND TELEVISION This module seeks to understand the ways in which audiences engage with film and television. It will introduce students to some of the key research on, and theoretical debates about, audiences and the processes of reception, from work on encoding and decoding, through studies of the social activities of television consumption, to research on marketing, critical reception and exhibition. It will also introduce some of the methodological issues involved in the actual practice of doing audience studies. In this way, the module will not only encourage students to learn about the study of film and television audiences, but also equip them with the tools necessary to undertake their own studies. The module is taught by seminar. | FTMF5003A | 20 |
| RESEARCH TRAINING The module is designed to provide students with the key concepts and methods necessary to devise and execute an independent research project whether using traditional academic methods or practice based research. As a result, it will cover the key processes involved in devising and focusing a research project, reflexively undertaking the research itself and writing up one's results. In the process, students will be shown how to position their work in relation to an intellectual context; devise the research questions that are practical and realistic; and developing research methods through which to address these questions. The module will be taught by lecture and seminar. | FTMF5005B | 20 |
| SCRIPT ANALYSIS AND STORY STRUCTURE This module investigates the theory and practice of script analysis for film and television. Students will have an opportunity to learn professional approaches to reading and evaluating scripts and source material for production. The module will explore basic dramaturgy and learn a variety of paradigms to describe story structure and character development. Students will learn several approaches to evaluating material, and will have the opportunity to create industry standard story reports. Each week, students will read and analyze scripts and/or books, and then screen films based on the material. Seminars will introduce key concepts and explore the narrative elements in the scripts and final films. In addition, the unit will look at story development as a facet of media practice. The module will draw on a variety of texts. Original scripts will form the backbone of the module, but the reading will also include novels and other forms of source material. This will also include a brief survey of dramaturgy, from the âPoeticsâ to modern manuals for script analysis. Other readings will examine the area as media practice. Formative work will play an important role in the module. Students will produce written reports virtually every week, which they will peer-correct in small support groups. This provides an opportunity to work in a variety of formats or with different types of material. In addition, it provides much-needed practice, as it takes many repetitions to learn the proper style and produce effective, professional-style work. The instructor will monitor formative work submitted through the Portal/Blackboard. | FTMF5014B | 20 |
| TELEVISION GENRE Work on television genre continues to draw on theories developed in relation to film, despite the fact that these theories have been heavily criticised. Not only can this ignore the differences between film and television genres, it can also work to privilege film over television, so that television is often seen as an inferior copy of genres developed elsewhere. The module will therefore explore the theory of genre in relation to television, the historical development of television genres, and the operation of genre in the production, mediation and consumption of television and its programmes. The module will also examine these debates in relation to concrete case studies. The module is taught by seminar and screening. | FTMF5013B | 20 |
| THE BUSINESS OF FILM AND TELEVISION The module provides an intensive introduction to the business of film and television; including the development, financing, production, distribution and exploitation of films and television programmes. It is based around a detailed understanding of the film and television value chain, showing how different businesses and creative people work together to create and exploit programmes. It will also cover the process by which scripts or TV programme ideas are written and developed. Emphasis will be placed on UK, European and American Independent film models, as well as the US studio model. It includes a wide range of recent case studies and real-life examples, with companies from Pixar to Working Title, and film-makers from Ken Loach to Terry Gilliam. Issues raised will include the impact of new technologies; changing business models; the conflict between commerce and art; entrepreneurship and managing creative people; and the complex and difficult relationships between writers, directors, producers, executives, financiers, and distributors. It is a practical forward-looking course about current and future business practise, which will be a valuable foundation for anyone interested in working in the media, film or television sectors. It will also be valuable to anyone studying film and television programmes and culture, so that they can fully understand the financial and business context in which programmes are created. By the end of the module you will know how films and TV programmes get dreamt up, how they get developed, and how they get financed and distributed. You will learn how the industry actually works. | FTMF5006A | 20 |
Option C Study (20 credits)
Students will select 20 credits from the following modules:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE (LEVEL 2) Japanese popular culture is becoming increasingly influential around the world. Important current manifestations are J-Pop (Japanese popular music), manga, anime, cospre (costume-play), computer games, and ketai-shosetsu (short novels for mobile phones). For understanding young Japanese and their relation to society, knowledge of Japanese popular culture is key. The aim of this module is to make students familiar with contemporary Japanese mass culture through consumption experiences, case studies and their analysis from socio-anthropological and historical perspectives. | LCSJ5046B | 20 |
| JAPAN THROUGH THE EYE OF A LENS This module examines Japanese society and politics through Japanese film and TV programmes. It will enable you to further your knowledge of Japanese language and cultural products. How, for example, did Japanese TV respond to the catastrophic Tohoku earthquake in 2011? How did new programmes report this tragic fact, and how did Japanese politicians react to emerging issues? What attitudes about gender and family do popular Japanese dramas reflect? In this module we aim to understand Japanese modern life, identity and policy. Each theme will be supported by relevant written texts. | LCSJ5011B | 20 |
| SUBTITLING AND DUBBING (LEVEL 2) This module is an introduction to aspects of subtitling and dubbing in different media and multimedia contexts (television, radio, cinema, world wide web), and to issues associated with these activities in the age of globalisation. A range of materials and processes will be considered (e.g. film subtitling, subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, subtitling and dubbing in news reports or documentaries, subtitling and dubbing in the context of multimedia localisation) to investigate key features and concerns involved in transposing text across communication channels, media, forms and codes. Assessment commensurate with level. Taught with LCS-3T17. | LCST5022A | 20 |
| TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR SUBTITLING AND DUBBING (LEVEL 2) This module provides first-hand experience of subtitling and dubbing. There will be an opportunity to become familiar with software used for interlingual and intralingual subtitling and dubbing at professional level while undertaking practical exercises involving cueing, text compression and segmentation, respecting time and space constraints and conforming to conventions of good practice. The different types of technological tools used for audiovisual translation at professional and amateur levels will be explored, analysed and assessed. Selected film/TV series/documentary extracts in several languages will be used. Practical activities will present participants with the challenges posed by the interplay of audio, image and text. | LCST5026B | 20 |
| THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEWS (LEVEL 2) The module seeks to provide an understanding of how the special cultural product we call 'news' is created. It examines the changing economic, political, legal and cultural contexts of newspaper production in a variety of media (print, web, broadcast). It presents and assesses different theories about how these contexts (or 'structures') impact on the day to day practice of journalism and the nature of the news message. An important part of the module involves tracing the reflections and refractions of these wider processes in actual news media discourse. We will use frequent practical analysis exercises to test and challenge the theories of new production and the practices of new production in today's fast-changing news environment. The module encourages students to develop, practice and test a range of skills, including: being able to consider, analyse and challenge critically the ideas and practices of themselves and others; taking part in teamwork; presenting ideas and analytical outcomes. By the end of the module, you should be able to 'read' news media in a very different way to before. | LCSL5016B | 20 |
| TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION (LEVEL 2) This module will consider translation and adaptation (understood as the transferral of a cultural product from one medium to another) in a range of media (for example, film, television, theatre, literature, and computer games) and the issues associated with these processes in these media. The module is taught in English and inter and intra-lingual work will be examined. The module is open to students who do not have a foreign language. Assessment commensurate with level. Taught with LCS-3T22. | LCST5024B | 20 |
| TRANSLATION ISSUES ACROSS MEDIA (LEVEL 2) This module is particularly relevant to language and translation students, but will appeal to students from across the University with an interest in language issues associated with the globalisation of communication and the media. It considers a range of materials (texts and their translations, multilingual publications and packaging, film subtitles, dubbed soundtracks, IT-mediated text) to explore issues involved in the transposition and translation of (spoken and written) text into other media and other languages across different genres, literary and non-literary. Taught in English. Receptive knowledge of one other main European language required. Taught with LCS-3T25. Assessment commensurate with level. | LCST5031A | 20 |
Compulsory Study (120 credits)
Students must study the following modules for 120 credits:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| YEAR ABROAD A compulsory year abroad for students taking one or more honours language(s). Satisfactory completion of the year abroad, as defined by the School Board, is necessary for registration in the following year. | LCSX5027Y | 120 |
Compulsory Study (40 credits)
Students must study the following modules for 40 credits:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| JAPANESE HONOURS LANGUAGE 3/1 - READINGS ON MODERN JAPAN In this module the students develop deep skills in the reading and understanding of the Japanese language. Students will read Japanese modern literature, newspapers, historical documents, and philosophy. While understanding and discussing such literature in Japanese, students will develop a deeper understanding of the language and learn how to use it for debate. They will become ready to use Japanese at academic level. | LCSJ6010A | 20 |
| JAPANESE HONOURS LANGUAGE 3/11 This module, which is compulsory for all final year Japanese Honours students, aims to enhance translation skills and will involve both Japanese to English and English into Japanese translation, including sight-translation based on a variety of text types. | LCSJ6011B | 20 |
Option A Study (60 credits)
Students will select 60 credits from the following modules:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ASIAN CINEMA 'Asian Cinema' is a category of films increasingly in evidence in diverse places ranging from cinemas to high street shops. Recent years have seen a variety of Asian cinema incursions into global film culture, from Bollywood in UK multiplexes to Hong Kong action styles used in the Hollywood blockbuster. Inherent within the label are debates of resistance, industry, art, technology and aesthetics that have held sway since the dawn of cinema worldwide. In this module we break down these discourses and address the significant cultural, economic and political influences that Asian cinemas have had, and indeed still have, within world culture. | FTMF6016B | 30 |
| ASIAN CINEMA 'Asian Cinema' is a category of films increasingly in evidence in diverse places ranging from cinemas to high street shops. Recent years have seen a variety of Asian cinema incursions into global film culture, from Bollywood in UK multiplexes to Hong Kong action styles used in the Hollywood blockbuster. Inherent within the label are debates of resistance, industry, art, technology and aesthetics that have held sway since the dawn of cinema worldwide. In this module we break down these discourses and address the significant cultural, economic and political influences that Asian cinemas have had, and indeed still have, within world culture.THIS IS A 20 CREDIT VERSION OF THE MODULE FOR VISITING STUDENTS ONLY. | FTMF6018B | 20 |
| CELEBRITY The module will explore the phenomenon of celebrity and fame from its origins to the present day, moving across a range of different media, including film, television, print media and the internet. In the process, it will examine key approaches to the study of celebrity, paying particular attention to the cultural formation of celebrity and how it is bound up with structures of power (e.g gender, class, ethnicity). It will feature a range of case studies that will include Classical Hollywood cinema, the coming of television, the supposed 'tabloidization' of print media, the birth of Reality TV, the growth of the celebrity scandal and the relationship between celebrity and the internet. | FTMF6013B | 30 |
| CELEBRITY The module will explore the phenomenon of celebrity and fame from its origins to the present day, moving across a range of different media, including film, television, print media and the internet. In the process, it will examine key approaches to the study of celebrity, paying particular attention to the cultural formation of celebrity and how it is bound up with structures of power (e.g gender, class, ethnicity). It will feature a range of case studies that will include Classical Hollywood cinema, the coming of television, the supposed 'tabloidization' of print media, the birth of Reality TV, the growth of the celebrity scandal and the relationship between celebrity and the internet. THIS IS A 20 CREDIT VERSION OF THE MODULE FOR VISITING STUDENTS ONLY. | FTMF6015B | 20 |
| CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES This module offers students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the industries that many of them may well wish to work in. The media industries are those that produce culture, and so they naturally include television, film, music, publishing (books, newspapers and magazines) and so on. People often want to work in the media since this kind of work offers opportunities to be âcreativeâ, to think independently and engage in activities which interest them already. But what does âcreativityâ mean in different kinds of media work and what kind of conditions do those working in the media typically face? To explore such questions, we reflect on changes in the nature of work itself in modern societies. That is, when so much modern work is either temporary and precarious, with many in advanced industrial countries working longer hours than ever before, is there a danger that work is detracting from the quality of our lives rather than enhancing it? The module explores the potential to find pleasure, fulfilment (and a steady income), as well as pressure, frustration and precariousness in media work. It also looks at the extent to which it is feasible to do âgood workâ in the media industries, as they become seemingly ever more commercial and competitive. How possible is it to produce challenging, innovative, groundbreaking, thoughtful or just genuinely entertaining media products? This means engaging with academic research and other writing, both historical and contemporary in nature. The above issues cannot be addressed through simple description. They raise important theoretical and historical issues about the place of artistic and professional creativity in modern societies. | FTMF6010A | 30 |
| CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES This module is a 20-credit version of FTVF3F57: CREATIVE WORK IN THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES and is available only to Visiting Students. | FTMF6011A | 20 |
| CRIME TELEVISION This module explores crime and investigation in recent US television, encompassing formal developments such as the use of group formats, specialist teams and genre hybrids. It considers theoretical/critical issues that may include the value and limits of approaching television via genre, representations of urban US life, the (lack of) engagement with questions of race, gender and the female investigator, gender and sex crimes, the statement and transgression of social/cultural taboos to do with sex, violence and identity and the increasing significance - post 9/11 - of paranoid narration, the investigation of terrorism as crime and the policing of US civil society. This module is taught by seminar and screening. | FTMF6023B | 30 |
| CRIME TELEVISION This unit is a 20-credit version of FTVF3F92 CRIME TELEVISION and is available only to Visiting Students. | FTMF6024B | 20 |
| FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES DISSERTATION (SPRING) AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1QW36301, U1TW76301, TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301 AND U1P300302. This module provides the opportunity to work on an independently researched dissertation on some aspect of Film and/or Television Studies. You are able to choose whether you do the dissertation module in the Autumn or the Spring Semester of your final year, whichever fits in better with your schedule of modules. (See also FTVF3F75 - note that you cannot take both modules.) Topics are individually negotiated. They need not relate directly to material taught in previous modules, although it is expected that dissertations will draw on and reflect upon perspectives and methodologies introduced earlier in the degree course. | FTMF6020B | 30 |
| FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES YEAR ABROAD DISSERTATION RESERVED FOR STUDENTS ON COURSE: U1TW76401 Final year dissertation involving research into a specific issue or topic in American culture. Restricted to students on the 4-year Film and American Studies programme. Topics will already have been approved on the basis of dissertation proposals submitted during the year abroad. | FTMF6005A | 30 |
| FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES: DISSERTATION (AUT) AVAILABLE ONLY TO STUDENTS ON COURSE(S): U1QW36301, U1TW76301, U1TW76401, U1W610301, U1WV63301, U1P300302 This module provides the opportunity to work on an independently researched dissertation on some aspect of Film and/or Television studies. You are able to choose whether you do the dissertation module in the Autumn or the Spring Semester of your final year, whichever fits in better with your schedule of modules. (See also FTVF3F76 - note that you cannot take both modules.) Topics are individually negotiated. They need not relate directly to material taught in previous modules, although it is expected that dissertations will draw on and reflect upon perspectives and methodologies introduced earlier in the degree course. | FTMF6019A | 30 |
| GENDER AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA This module offers an overview of critical and theoretical approaches to gender and genre in contemporary cinema, focusing particularly on North American cinema. Topics explored may include: new women and new men - the articulation of gender in popular and 'independent' American cinema since 2000; feminism and authorship; the response of mainstream and independent cinema to the political and cultural contexts of postfeminism; race and the limits of feminist representation; masculinity, homosociality and Hollywood genre. The module is taught by seminar, tutorial and screening. | FTMF6002B | 30 |
| GENDER AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA This module is a 20-credit version of FTVF3F10: GENDER AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA and is available only to Visiting Students. | FTMF6004B | 20 |
| MIDDLE EASTERN CINEMAS The module offers a detailed examination of Middle Eastern cinemas. It focuses on national (including Turkish, Iranian, Lebanese, and Palestinian) cinemas which are brought together not only by their geographical location but also for cultural, social, political and industrial contexts they present. In critically reflecting on these aspects, students explore films and cinemas of the Middle East within their historical contexts. The module concentrates on a range of themes and issues including: the concept of national cinema; Middle Eastern cinemas and âthe Westâ; religion and cinema; cinema and the construction of identities in Middle Eastern films; film directors; film stars; as well as women and sexuality in Middle Eastern films. The module aims to provide students with appropriate theoretical and critical tools in the understanding films, cinemas and visual cultures of the Middle East. By the end of the module students will have learned to read and analyse films critically and treat them as representative of some of the issues inherent in the cultures that produced them. | FTMF6030B | 30 |
| MIDDLE EASTERN CINEMAS The module offers a detailed examination of Middle Eastern cinemas. It focuses on national (including Turkish, Iranian, Lebanese, and Palestinian) cinemas which are brought together not only by their geographical location but also for cultural, social, political and industrial contexts they present. In critically reflecting on these aspects, students explore films and cinemas of the Middle East within their historical contexts. The module concentrates on a range of themes and issues including: the concept of national cinema; Middle Eastern cinemas and âthe Westâ; religion and cinema; cinema and the construction of identities in Middle Eastern films; film directors; film stars; as well as women and sexuality in Middle Eastern films. The module aims to provide students with appropriate theoretical and critical tools in the understanding films, cinemas and visual cultures of the Middle East. By the end of the module students will have learned to read and analyse films critically and treat them as representative of some of the issues inherent in the cultures that produced them. This module is a 20 credit version of FTMF3F04 MIDDLE EASTER CINEMAS and is available ONLY to Visiting Students. | FTMF6031B | 20 |
| SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA Science Fiction is currently a key genre in popular cinema, providing a significant focus for addressing social, cultural and political issues. This module follows the historical development of the genre and looks at changes in the way both mainstream and alternative films have addressed such issues. Films we look at range from silent classics such as 'Le Voyage dans la Lune' and 'Metropolis' to the more recent 'Independence Day', 'The Fifth Element', and 'The Matrix'. Other screenings might include 'Things to Come', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'Demon Seed', 'Alien', 'The Brother from Another Planet', 'Robocop' and 'Akira'. Separate screenings. | FTMF6001A | 30 |
| SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA Science Fiction is currently a key genre in popular cinema, providing a significant focus for addressing social, cultural and political issues. This module follows the historical development of the genre and looks at changes in the way both mainstream and alternative films have addressed such issues. Films we look at range from silent classics such as 'Le Voyage dans la Lune' and 'Metropolis' to the more recent 'Independence Day', 'The Fifth Element', and 'The Matrix'. Other screenings might include 'Things to Come', 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', 'Demon Seed', 'Alien', 'The Brother from Another Planet', 'Robocop' and 'Akira'. Separate screenings. This module is a 20-credit version of FTVF3F22: SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA and is available only to Visiting Students. | FTMF6003A | 20 |
| SELLING SPECTACLE Spectacle is the cornerstone of the modern film industry, in Hollywood and in other national cinemas around the world. Blockbusters and other films are produced, marketed and exhibited using epic language, hyperbolic visuals and overblown promotional materials. Yet despite these excessive claims, the world of selling spectacle and epic marketing techniques are often overlooked in academic or critical discussions. This module will explore the history of spectacle within the global film industries, the cinematic technologies that have been created to enhance that spectacle, and the advertising and promotional techniques that were utilised to emphasise and display it. Following the work of theorists such as Tom Gunning, Geoff King, Janet Staiger and Barbara Klinger, the module will demonstrate the historical development of spectacle and selling that lies behind the modern system of film production, distribution and exhibition. Understanding the theory and methodologically distinct approaches needed to analyse posters, press books, trailers, websites, interviews, and critical reviews will be an essential component to this module. Students will be expected to engage with both theories of film advertising and analysis of marketing materials and other related epiphenomena. While the module will consider some films that may be described as belonging to the âepicâ genre ('The Ten Commandments', 1956; or 'Gladiator', 2000) this module is not concerned with generic traits so much as spectacular production practices throughout film history, and the industrial practices that were invented to educate audiences in such new, spectacular, images and concepts. Using specific case studies, the module will trace the historical development of spectacle within filmmaking, and its role in redefining the function of film advertising and promotion. | FTMF6006A | 30 |
| SELLING SPECTACLE This module is a 20-credit version of FTVF3F45: SELLING SPECTACLE and is available only to Visiting Students. | FTMF6007A | 20 |
| SELLING SPECTACLE Spectacle is the cornerstone of the modern film industry, in Hollywood and in other national cinemas around the world. Blockbusters and other films are produced and marketed using epic language, hyperbolic visuals and overblown promotional materiaks. Yet despite these excessive claims, the world of 'selling' such spectacle and the marketing techniques that accompany it are often overlooked in academic and critical discussions. This module will explore the advertising and promotional techniques that have been utilised to emphasis and display cinematic spectacle, from posters and press books to trailers, websites and viral marketing campaigns. Following the work of theorists such as Barbara Klinger, Janet Staiger, Jonathan Gray, and Tom Gunning, the module will explore the metholodogically distinct approaches needed to analyse the full range of promotional materials used in the historic and contemporary film industries. Students will be expected to engage with both theories of film advertising and analysis of marketing materials and other related epiphenomena and paratexts. While the module will cover promotional materials for some films that may be described as belonging to the "epic" genre, this module is not concerned with generic traits so much as those spectacular production and marketing practices that have been developed over the last 100 years, and which work to educate audiences about new spectacular imagery, concepts and technologies. Using specific case studies, the module will trace how a range of cinematic spectacles were established and redefined the function of film advertising and promotion. | FTMF6029B | 30 |
| STANLEY KUBRICK: FILMS IN CONTEXT Stanley Kubrick is regarded as one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century, with '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) and 'Dr Strangelove' (1964) being listed in critics' polls as two of the best films ever made. Kubrick also was one of the most commercially successful directors of the 1960s and 1970s. This module concentrates on the 11 full-length films he made from 1956 to 1999, but also considers his early career as a photo-journalist and maker of documentary shorts and short features. The module examines the production, themes, style and reception of Kubrick's films, and situates them in the context of broader developments in American cinema, culture and politics. | FTMF6008B | 30 |
| STANLEY KUBRICK: FILMS IN CONTEXT This module is a 20-credit version of FTVF3F52 STANLEY KUBRICK: FILMS IN CONTEXT and is available only to Visiting Students. | FTMF6009B | 20 |
| TEENAGE KICKS: MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE This module will address the historical development of the commercial youth market and introduce key debates relating to young people and their uses of mainstream and underground media. It will examine a range of theoretical approaches to youth culture, subculture and post-subculture, employing case studies of popular and alternative music, club culture, film, television, subcultural style and new digital technologies. It will address questions of ideology, identity and representation, most significantly issues of class, gender, race and ethnicity, and encourage students to discuss how cultural interests and practices are used to construct individual and group identities. It will focus primarily on the British post-war context â highlighting the influence of American popular culture, Black Diaspora and technological transformation on British youth â but will also examine young peopleâs media use and subcultures in other national and transnational contexts. The emphasis will be on analysing the extent to which cultural power is negotiated and resisted through shared media consumption and subculture formation | FTMF6012A | 30 |
| TEENAGE KICKS:MEDIA, YOUTH AND SUBCULTURE This module will address the historical development of the commercial youth market and introduce key debates relating to young people and their uses of mainstream and underground media. It will examine a range of theoretical approaches to youth culture, subculture and post-subculture, employing case studies of popular and alternative music, club culture, film, television, subcultural style and new digital technologies. It will address questions of ideology, identity and representation, most significantly issues of class, gender, race and ethnicity, and encourage students to discuss how cultural interests and practices are used to construct individual and group identities. It will focus primarily on the British post-war context â highlighting the influence of American popular culture, Black Diaspora and technological transformation on British youth â but will also examine young peopleâs media use and subcultures in other national and transnational contexts. The emphasis will be on analysing the extent to which cultural power is negotiated and resisted through shared media consumption and subculture formation. THIS IS A 20 CREDIT VERSION OF THE MODULE FOR VISITING STUDENTS ONLY. | FTMF6017A | 20 |
| WOMEN, ISLAM AND MEDIA BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST TAKE EITHER FTVF1F09 OR TAKE PSI-1A05 OR TAKE PSI-1A06 This module intends to explore the relationship between women and Islam in contemporary media; particularly in film and television. The module is interdisciplinary in scope with readings and theoretical underpinnings from film and television studies as well as media, cultural and gender studies. The module is arranged thematically and focuses on different aspects of the relationship between women and Islam. Some of the themes and topics that will be studied in the module are: the political and religious resonance of the veil; Orientalism and Occidentalismâs significance to media studies; representations of consequences of arranged marriage in television; honour killings; trauma, terror and Islam and the representation of women as terrorists in films; the representation of silence, women and Islam in television adverts; international womenâs film festivals. | FTMF6021A | 30 |
| WOMEN, ISLAM AND MEDIA This module intends to explore the relationship between women and Islam in contemporary media; particularly in film and television. The module is interdisciplinary in scope with readings and theoretical underpinnings from film and television studies as well as media, cultural and gender studies. The module is arranged thematically and focuses on different aspects of the relationship between women and Islam. Some of the themes and topics that will be studied in the module are: the political and religious resonance of the veil; Orientalism and Occidentalismâs significance to media studies; representations of consequences of arranged marriage in television; honour killings; trauma, terror and Islam and the representation of women as terrorists in films; the representation of silence, women and Islam in television adverts; international womenâs film festivals. THIS IS A 20 CREDIT VERSION OF THE MODULE - ONLY AVAILABLE FOR VISITING STUDENTS | FTMF6022A | 20 |
Option B Study (20 credits)
Students will select 20 credits from the following modules:
| Name | Code | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| DISSERTATION IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (AUTUMN) This module gives students the opportunity to undertake research on a project of their own choosing under the supervision of a member of faculty. The goal is to produce an extended essay (written in English) of 5,000 - 6,000 words which relates in-depth research on a specialist topic relating to wider issues in language and communication studies. The dissertation topic must be agreed by the module organiser by the end of the previous semester. There is no specific timetable slot for the module, arrangements for tutorial meetings being made between the individual tutor and student. This module will be useful preparation for those interested in pursuing post-graduate studies. | LCSC6002A | 20 |
| DISSERTATION IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (SPRING) This module gives students the opportunity to undertake research on a project of their own choosing under the supervision of a member of faculty. The goal is to produce an extended essay (written in English) of 5,000 - 6,000 words which relates in-depth research on a specialist topic relating to wider issues in language and communication studies. The dissertation topic must be agreed by the module organiser by the end of the previous semester. There is no specific timetable slot for the module, arrangements for tutorial meetings being made between the individual tutor and student. This module will be useful preparation for those interested in pursuing post-graduate studies. | LCSC6003B | 20 |
| SUBTITLING AND DUBBING (LEVEL 3) This module is an introduction to aspects of subtitling and dubbing in different media and multimedia contexts (television, radio, cinema, world wide web), and to issues associated with these activities in the age of globalisation. A range of materials and processes will be considered (e.g. film subtitling, subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, subtitling and dubbing in news reports or documentaries, subtitling and dubbing in the context of multimedia localisation) to investigate key features and concerns involved in transposing text across communication channels, media, forms and codes. Assessment commensurate with level. Taught with LCS-2T11. | LCST6020A | 20 |
| TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS FOR SUBTITLING AND DUBBING (LEVEL 3) This module provides first-hand experience of subtitling and dubbing. There will be an opportunity to become familiar with software used for interlingual and intralingual subtitling and dubbing at professional level while undertaking practical exercises involving cueing, text compression and segmentation, respecting time and space constraints and conforming to conventions of good practice. The different types of technological tools used for audiovisual translation at professional and amateur levels will be explored, analysed and assessed. Selected film/TV series/documentary extracts in several languages will be used. Practical activities will present participants with the challenges posed by the interplay of audio, image and text. | LCST6027B | 20 |
| THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEWS (LEVEL 3) The module seeks to provide an understanding of how the special cultural product we call 'news' is created. It examines the changing economic, political, legal and cultural contexts of newspaper production in a variety of media (print, web, broadcast). It presents and assesses different theories about how these contexts (or 'structures') impact on the day to day practice of journalism and the nature of the news message. An important part of the module involves tracing the reflections and refractions of these wider processes in actual news media discourse. We will use frequent practical analysis exercises to test and challenge the theories of new production and the practices of new production in today's fast-changing news environment. The module encourages students to develop, practice and test a range of skills, including: being able to consider, analyse and challenge critically the ideas and practices of themselves and others; taking part in teamwork; presenting ideas and analytical outcomes. By the end of the module, you should be able to 'read' news media in a very different way to before. Assessment commensurate with level. In addition to the timetabled seminar, some further contact hours will be arranged for level 3 students. | LCSL6016B | 20 |
| TRANSLATION ISSUES ACROSS MEDIA (LEVEL 3) This module is particularly relevant to language and translation students, but will appeal to students from across the University with an interest in language issues associated with the globalisation of communication and the media. It considers a range of materials (texts and their translations, multilingual publications and packaging, film subtitles, dubbed soundtracks, IT-mediated text) to explore issues involved in the transposition and translation of (spoken and written) text into other media and other languages across different genres, literary and non-literary. Taught in English. Receptive knowledge of one other main European language required. Taught with LCS-2T25. Assessment commensurate with level. | LCST6032A | 20 |
| TRANSLATION THEORY AND PRACTICE The primary aim of this module is to develop the skills and critical thinking required for the production, by the individual student, of an extended annotated translation and commentary. The commentary consists of a theoretical discussion of the translation process and product, together with specific annotations illustrating the translation strategy adopted. This module is open to second-year LCS students with (near) native competence in French or Spanish and/or visiting/exchange students. Assessment commensurate with credit value. | LCST6018A | 20 |
Disclaimer
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules and regular (five-yearly) review of course programmes. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, there will normally be prior consultation of students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff or sabbatical leave. Where this is the case, the University will endeavour to inform students.
Year Abroad
You spend a year abroad in your third year on all our four-year language degrees or alternatively a semester abroad in the second year on our three-year fast-track degrees. The year/semester abroad is a fantastic chance for a student to explore one or more countries where your Honours language(s) are spoken and the opportunities they offer, while at the same time having the support of the School’s staff.
You either take up a teaching assistantship, a work placement, voluntary work or attend a foreign university, usually on an Erasmus/Socrates exchange in France or Spain. Students on the Erasmus scheme receive a small grant from the EU which funds the scheme, and students teaching or working also receive the Erasmus grant in addition to their salary. Students going to Japan will attend university.
If you are taking two languages from A level, you will normally split the year between two countries where those languages are spoken.
The main option available to you is attending a university, normally as part of an exchange programme, one semester in each country. Students of French can, for instance, attend the prestigious Ecole de Traduction et d'Interprétation in Geneva. We have Erasmus exchange schemes and well-established links with a range of universities in France and Spain: (France) Clermont Ferrand, Corsica, Montpellier III, Nancy II, Nice, Paris, and Tours; (Spain) Alicante, Alcalá de Henares, Castilla La Mancha, Madrid (Antonio de Nebrija, Autónoma and Complutense), Granada, Salamanca, Toledo and Zaragoza, as well as the Universidad de Guadalajara and the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico. We are currently establishing our year abroad university partners for the first cohort of students who will go to Japan in 2013-14.
If you are taking two languages from A level it is also possible to take up a work placement in France or Spain in combination with a university place if a short enough work placement can be found. The final option of working as a language assistant is not open to you because you will need to split your year abroad and contracts for assistants are for more than six months.
If you are taking one of French, Spanish or Japanese from below A level, you will normally spend your year in a country where the weaker language is spoken and the summer in a country where your stronger language is spoken. If you are taking French, Spanish or Japanese from below A level in combination with another Honours language, you will spend the year abroad in the country of the weaker language and, for France and Spain, follow courses in the stronger language. It is recommended that such students spend the summer before the final year in the country of their stronger language.
If you are a highly proficient native or near-native speaker of French or Spanish, then you are normally exempted from the compulsory year abroad for that language and spend your first year studying a completely different language from our wide range of subsidiary languages. In your following two years your compulsory language strand consists of final year level modules in your native language. If you are studying two languages to Honours level and one of these is your native language, then you will spend a year abroad in a country where your non-native language is spoken.
Entry Requirements
- Qualification:
- BA (Hons)
- A Level:
- ABB
- International Baccalaureate:
- 32
- Scottish Advanced Highers:
- ABB
- Irish Leaving Certificate:
- AABBBB
- Access Course:
- Please contact the University for further information.
- HND:
- Please contact the University for further information.
- European Baccalaureate:
- 75%
Entry Requirement
2014
Typical A-level offer: ABB
Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 32
All equivalent qualifications considered, please contact the university for further information
Students should also have 5 GCSEs including English (grade C) and Mathematics (grade C), and at least GCSE standard in a Modern Language.
Students for whom English is a Foreign language
We welcome applications from students from all academic backgrounds. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading). Recognised English Language qualifications include:
- IELTS: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all components)
- TOEFL: Internet-based score of 88 overall (minimum 18 in the Listening and Writing components; 19 in the Reading component; and 21 in the Speaking component)
- PTE: 62 overall with minimum 55 in all components
If you do not meet the University's entry requirements, our INTO Language Learning Centre offers a range of university preparation courses to help you develop the high level of academic and English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study.
Interviews
The School does not currently interview all applicants for undergraduate entry as standard, however we do offer the opportunity to meet with an academic individually on a Visit Day in order to gain a deeper insight into the course(s) you have applied for. Some candidates with non-standard qualifications, or who have been out of full-time education for some time, may be invited to attend for interview.
Gap Year
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year.
Deferred Entry
We also welcome applications for deferred entry, believing that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry and may wish to contact the appropriate Admissions Office directly to discuss this further.
Special Entry Requirements
It is generally expected that you should have at least a Grade B at A Level, or its equivalent, in the language or languages that you intend to take at honours level.
In the case of Spanish or Japanese studied from Beginners' or Spanish, French or Japanese from post-GCSE level, we require evidence of foreign language learning ability, such as a good grade in a foreign language at GCSE.
Intakes
The School's annual intake is in September of each year.
Alternative Qualifications
If you have alternative qualifications that have not been mentioned above then please contact the University directly for further information.
GCSE Offer
Students are required to have Mathematics and English at Grade C or above at GCSE level.
Fees and Funding
Undergraduate University Fees
We are committed to ensuring that Tuition Fees do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. Full time UK/EU students starting an undergraduate degree course in 2013 will be charged a tuition fee of £9,000. The level of fee may be subject to yearly increases.
Year Abroad Fees
For Home/EU students opting for a Year Abroad the tuition fee is currently £1,350. The Year Abroad tuition fee will be subject to an annual increase. International Students are required to pay 25% of their annual tuition fee to UEA during their year Abroad and will be calculated based on the current tuition fee for that year.
Scholarships and Bursaries
Home/EU - The University of East Anglia offers a range of Bursaries and Scholarships. To check if you are eligible please visit out University Financial Support pages.
International Students
Full time International students starting an undergraduate degree course in 2013 will be charged a tuition fee of £12,300. The level of fee may be subject to yearly increases.
The University offers around £1 million of Scholarships each year to support International students in their studies. Scholarships are normally awarded to students on the basis of academic merit and are usually for the duration of the period of study. Our University International pages give you more details about preparation for studying with us, including Fees and Funding.
Applications need to be made via the Universities Colleges and Admissions Services (UCAS), using the UCAS Apply option.
UCAS Apply is a secure online application system that allows you to apply for full-time Undergraduate courses at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom. It is made up of different sections that you need to complete. Your application does not have to be completed all at once. The system allows you to leave a section partially completed so you can return to it later and add to or edit any information you have entered. Once your application is complete, it must be sent to UCAS so that they can process it and send it to your chosen universities and colleges.
The UCAS code name and number for the University of East Anglia is EANGL E14.
Further Information
If you would like to discuss your individual circumstances with the Admissions Office prior to applying please do contact us:
Undergraduate Admissions Office (Language and Communication Studies)
Tel: +44 (0)1603 591515
Email: admissions@uea.ac.uk
Please click here to register your details online via our Online Enquiry Form.
International candidates are also actively encouraged to access the University's International section of our website.